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San Diego museum showcases Nandalal Bose

The San Diego Museum of Art held an exhibition of paintings of Nandalal Bose, the great Indian painter whose major work spanned the first half of the 20th century. The paintings convey aspects of......

Soon, Art of India Gallery at Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, plans to open an Art of India gallery early next year at a projected cost of $3 million, according to Christine Starkman, MFAH curator of Asian art.The cost......

Deshpande, Fadia fund gallery of Indian art

With a gift of $500,000 from the Prashant H Fadia Foundation and the Deshpande Foundation, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has almost tripled its existing gallery space for......

Gujarat riot video dropped from exhibition in Beijing

After prodding from the government, a short documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots has been removed from an exhibition on contemporary Indian art currently underway in Beijing. "There was a video......

Asia Society's India-born president to quit

Global non-profit organisation Asia Society's India-born head Vishakha Desai, who has advised President Barack Obama on India related issues, is stepping down as President and CEO after 22 years at......

This cell phone also kills germs

There's a video playing these days at New York's Museum of Modern Art about a curvaceous cell phone called 'Morph'. Unlike your typical phone, this one's form-fitting: It wraps around your wrist......

Yahoo names Google executive Marissa Mayer as new CEO

Yahoo has named Marissa Mayer, one of Google's top executives, as its new President and CEO, making her the third chief executive in a year that the struggling internet company has brought on board......

Raza's painting sold at a record price

Indian artist Syed Haider Raza's work 'Saurashtra' fetched a record Rs 16.42 crore ($3,486,965) at the famous Christie's in London. Raza's work, done in 1983, considered a monumental painting,......

What Bengaluru must learn from San Francisco

San Francisco and Bengaluru have a lot in common but there is a lot more that is different. Bengaluru needs to imbibe the spirit of San Francisco, says Subir Roy. San Francisco and Bengaluru have a......

Heavy taxes hit art business

The financial meltdown and heavy taxes on works of art imported or sold in India has caused many art galleries to shut down in recent times.Speaking on the sidelines of the international symposium......

Watching The Clock at MoMa

New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) showcased The Clock, a meticulous effort showing clocks and watches from thousands of films from the last 100 years of cinema.It is 7.45 am when......

Raj Kapoor's Awara holds New York's attention once again

The Raj Kapoor film festival at Museum of Modern Art, New York, was a beautiful trip down memory lane. Towards the middle of the Awara screening this past Friday, a very young and stunningly......

New York celebrates Raj Kapoor

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will host afilm festival on Raj Kapoor starting today, right up to January 16.About 12 years ago, a professor at Wharton, being interviewed for a business......

A glimpse of New India in New York

The New India film festival at the Museum of Modern Art kicked off last Friday in New York. The two-week long programme that ends on June 18 includes features and film shorts that have won......

Spotted: Abhishek, Sonam in New York

Reader Shweyta Mudgal met Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol at the Delhi-6 premiereat the Museum of Modern Art in New York....

The Ashes through time

In the cloistered hush of the Lord's museum a tiny, unremarkable pottery urn has attained an importance out of all proportion to its size.Standing only 10 cms high, the urn contains the burnt......

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Q. Were and why was the Louvre built?
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Q. Which museum is the largest in India?
John: A. The National Museum in New Delhi is the largest museum in India. It holds variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art...... more

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Q. make word using following 13 english letters R G A D I W H O T F I N Y
Sameer Negi: A. Relishing Guggenheim art or idly walking uptown -- oh, the fun in New York!Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York City more

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Q. Cecil B Demelle, makers of historicals and mythologicals movies like Ten Commandments, Sampson and Delilah, writes a personal note after the screening of an Indian film that says:\"Greetings from one director who is still trying to make good pictures to another directorwho will make great ones long after I am gone.\"Name the Indian film
Laks Hmi: A. RAM RAJYA BY VIJAY BHATT MADE IN 1943, IS PREMIERED IN U.S.A. IN 1947 AT THE PRESTIGIOUS MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN NEW YORK.CECIL B DEMELLE, MAKERS...... more

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Q. FULL FORM OF DRUDS
Josna: A. De Maria was born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935. He studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959...... more

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Contemporary Asian Art'

A selection of works by Contemporary Asian artists who explore images from nature in diverse manners. Live sale on artnet Auctions from May 22... ...

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Rare Gaitonde, MF works to be sold

Rare paintings by Indian artists Vasudeo S. Gaitonde and Maqbool Fida Husain, who died in London almost two years ago, will be offered for sale in... ...

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Gandhi's will, and our lack of will

India must scrap the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972. A sale of Gandhi memorabilia conducted earlier this week by the British auctioneers... ...

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Rare Mars meteorite expected to fetch $160,000 at auction

The Martian meteorite NWA 7397 was found in 2012 in Morocco's Sahara Desert. Scientists believe it was part of a chunk of Mars that was chipped... ...

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Glimpse of Wider Islamic World at San Antonio Museum of Art in Jameel Prize Exhibition

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What does San Antonio have in common with London, Paris, Madrid and Stanford? It is also a venue (the second and final U.S.... ...

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